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  2. List of Spanish inventors and discoverers - Wikipedia

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    Andrés Alcázar (1490-1585), neurosurgeon and anatomist, designed new tools for surgical treatments. [2] José María Algué (1856–1930), meteorologist, inventor of the barocyclometer, the nephoscope, and the microseismograph. [3] [4] José Antonio de Artigas Sanz (b. 1887), created luminescence with noble gases.

  3. New France - Wikipedia

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    Samuel de Champlain overseeing the construction of the Habitation de Québec, in 1608. New France had five colonies or territories, each with its own administration: Canada (the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, and the St. Lawrence River Valley), Acadia (the Gaspé Peninsula, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, St. John's Island, and Île Royale-Cape Breton), Hudson Bay (and James Bay), Terre ...

  4. List of Spanish inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Pathology - various Muslim physicians in Spain were crucial in the development of modern medicine. Pathology, obviously was an important development in medicine. The first correct proposal of the nature of disease was described by al-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr. Pharmacopoeia (book of medicine). During the 14th century, the physician from Malaga, Ibn ...

  5. Francisco Hernández expedition (1570–1577) - Wikipedia

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    The Francisco Hernández expedition (Spanish: Comisión de Francisco Hernández a Nueva España) is considered to be the first scientific expedition to the New World, led by Francisco Hernández de Toledo, a naturalist and physician of the Court of King Philip II, who was highly regarded in Spain because of his works on herbal medicine.

  6. List of early modern universities in Europe - Wikipedia

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    A History of the University in Europe. Vol. III: Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945), Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-36107-1; Rüegg, Walter (ed.): A History of the University in Europe. Vol. IV: Universities Since 1945, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-36108-8

  7. Michel Sarrazin - Wikipedia

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    After having completed his studies in France and returned to New France, no family member was awaiting Sarrazin's arrival in the colony. It was not until June 20, 1712, fifteen years after his return and at the age of fifty, that Sarrazin married Marie-Anne Hazeur, a former pupil of the Ursulines, in Montreal, Quebec. [citation needed]

  8. Royal Madrilenian Academy of Medicine - Wikipedia

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    José Cervi was an Italian physician and professor of medicine at the University of Parma. [4] Cervi served as the president of the Royal Academy following its sponsorship by Philip V . [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Prior to his appointment as president, Cervi had previously worked for the royal family as the King's primary physician. [ 4 ]

  9. Francisco Sanches - Wikipedia

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    In the auditorium of the University of Toulouse there is a portrait of Francisco Sánchez, which bears the following inscription: "Francisco Sanchez Lusitanus". Although the investigations carried out by Henry Pierre Cazac at the beginning of the 20th century – he presented, among other documents, an autograph by Sánchez that reads as follows: "Ego, Franciscus Sanctius, Hispanus, natus in ...